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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






2. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






3. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






4. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






5. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






6. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






7. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






8. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






9. The main character of a literary work.






10. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






11. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






12. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






13. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






14. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






15. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






16. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






17. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






18. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






19. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






20. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






21. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






22. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






23. The dictionary meaning of a word.






24. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






25. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






26. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






27. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






28. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






29. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






30. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






31. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






32. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






33. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






34. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






35. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






36. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






37. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






38. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






39. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






40. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






41. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






42. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






43. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






44. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






45. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






46. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






47. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






48. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






49. The person who 'tells' the story.






50. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.